Rumi Quotes
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
Quotes to Explore
-
Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
-
The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.
-
I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
-
I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
-
In America, public opinion is the leader.
-
I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
-
In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare. I've got a sister who got a first in her degree. We don't sit around watching TV all the time.
-
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.
-
I have a lot of love for nature, trees, animals and greenery, and I feel that if I did not exist, there'd be no greenery on the face of the earth.
-
It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.
-
Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
-
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
-
Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.
-
History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all. We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact, - see how it could and must be.
-
The attempt to live by the reality of our own nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials, is a profoundly moral regimen.
-
If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.
-
The study of nature is of no significance, for painting is a conventional art, and it is infinitely more worthwhile to learn to draw after w:Holbein.
-
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
-
Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.
-
The person who works harder when the boss isn’t around is headed straight for a better job.
-
Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.
-
Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
-
I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.
-
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
